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KELL

Definitions: KELL

KELL

Noun

1. The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.

2. The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film.

3. A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2.

4. A kiln.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: KELL

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A variation of kiln. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Kell, Illinois

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Kell is a village located in Marion County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 231.

Geography


Kell is located at 38°29'27" North, 88°54'22" West (38.490869, -88.906241)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²). 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 231 people, 84 households, and 68 families residing in the village. The population density is 88.3/km² (228.7/mi²). There are 89 housing units at an average density of 34.0/km² (88.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 100.00% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 84 households out of which 35.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 73.8% are married couples living together, 7.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 17.9% are non-families. 15.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.75 and the average family size is 3.09. In the village the population is spread out with 27.3% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 97.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 100.0 males. The median income for a household in the village is $40,909, and the median income for a family is $41,719. Males have a median income of $31,806 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the village is $17,002. 0.0% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kell, Illinois."

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Crosswords: KELL

English words defined with "KELL": Keld. (references)
Specialty definitions using "KELL": Kell Blood-Group System, Kell factor. (references)
Non-English Usage: "KELL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Estonian (clock, watch), Hungarian (got to, have got to, have to, must, ought, ought to, should, to need, to require).

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Modern Usage: KELL

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Kell egy hét együttlét (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: KELL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hello Everybody, I'm George Kell (reference)

  • John McIntosh Kell of the raider Alabama (reference)

  • Kevin & Kell: Accepting Domestication (Kevin & Kell) (reference)

  • Kevin & Kell: Seen Anything Unusual? (Kevin & Kell Series) (reference)

  • Sarton Kell (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: KELL

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Captain Raphael Semmes, Alabama's commanding officer, standing by his ship's 110-pounder rifled gun during her visit to Capetown in August 1863. His executive officer, First Lieutenant John M. Kell, is in the background, standing by the ship's wheel. The original photograph is lightly color-tinted and mounted on a carte de visite bearing, on its reverse, the mark of E. Burmester, of Cape Town. See photo numbers NH 57256-KN for the colored image and NH 57256-A for a reproduction of the carte de visite's reverse. Credit: NAVY.

Ship's officers on deck. They are Seated, left to right: First Lieutenant William E. Evans; Commander Raphael Semmes, Commanding Officer; and First Assistant Engineer Miles J. Freeman. Standing, left to right: Surgeon Francis L. Galt; Lieutenant John M. Stribling; First Lieutenant John M. Kell, Executive Officer; Lieutenant Robert T. Chapman; and First Lieutenant Becket K. Howell (Marine Corps). Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving by H.B. Hall, Jr., New York, featuring portraits of seven officers who served with Semmes in CSS Sumter. In center is First Lieutenant John McIntosh Kell. The others are (clockwise from top): First Lieutenant Robert T. Chapman; First Assistant Engineer Miles J. Freeman; Paymaster Henry Myers; Lieutenant John M. Stribling; Surgeon Francis L. Galt; and First Lieutenant William E. Evans. Kell, Freeman and Galt also served with Semmes in CSS Alabama and were present during her engagement with USS Kearsarge. Credit: NAVY.

Halftoned image, printed in "Two Years on the Alabama", by Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair (2nd edition, 1896). Kell was Executive Officer of CSS Alabama in 1862-64. Credit: NAVY.

Alex Mumford Jr., 10 disguised as the man from uncle complete with eye patch, handcuffs, trench coat, knife, gun, briefcase, in Macy's Toy Dept. / World Journal Tribune p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Ted Kell..

Floating dam / S. Russel, delt. ; Kell Bros. lithrs., Holborn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: KELL

"KELL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "KELL" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%6242,755

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: KELL

The following table summarizes the usage of "KELL" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
KellLast name2,0004,964
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: KELL


1. Kell, IL (village, FIPS 39324)
Location: 38.49080 N, 88.90416 W
Population (1990): 213 (78 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 62853
Country: USA

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Expression: KELL

Expressions using "KELL": Kell Blood-Group System Kell factor. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "KELL": Coe-kell.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: KELL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

kell

103

jo kell

4

kell troy

81

kell rowland

4

kell kevin

76

hospital kell regional west

4

kell r

41

kell munoz

3

high kell school

23

anti kell

3

kell blue book

21

book kell

3

clarkson kell

17

from justin kell

3

kell madi son

15

call kell

3

george kell

12

hu kell

3

kell kell leila

10

kell regis

3

kell price

8

am kell see

3

kell il

8

jpg kell

3

kell michael troy

7

jean kell louisa

3

kell realty

6

hospital kell west

2

kell kenan

5

anti antibody kell

2

jill kell

5

brent kell

2

architect kell munoz

5

hound kell

2

kell madison

5

kell willie

2

kell strom

4

kell antigen

2

kell antibody

4

facial kell

2

kell west

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: KELL

Language Translations for "KELL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Kell-faktor (Kell factor), Kell-antigen (Kell antigen). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Kell-factor (Kell factor), Kell antigeen (Kell antigen). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Kell-kerroin (Kell factor), K-antigeeni (Kell antigen). (various references)

   

French

  

facteur de définition (Kell factor), antigène Kell (Kell antigen). (various references)

   

German

  

Kellfaktor (Kell factor), Kell-Antigen (Kell antigen). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παράγοντας Κελ (Kell factor), παράγοντας ευκρίνειας (Kell factor), αντιγόνο Kell (Kell antigen). (various references)

   

Italian

  

antigene Kell (Kell antigen). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellkay

   

Portuguese

  

factor Kell (Kell factor), antigénio Kell (Kell antigen). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

factor de Kell (Kell factor), antígeno Kell (Kell antigen). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Kell-antigen (Kell antigen). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: KELL

Derivations

Words beginning with "KELL": kellies, kelly. (additional references)

Words containing "KELL": muskellunge, muskellunges, nickelled, nickelling, rathskeller, rathskellers, skellum, skellums. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: KELL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-k-l-l"

-1 letter: elk, ell, lek.

-2 letters: el.

 Words containing the letters "e-k-l-l"
 

+1 letter: kelly, knell.

 

+2 letters: killed, killer, killie, knells, likely.

 

+3 letters: belleek, bleakly, clerkly, eellike, elflike, elflock, inkwell, kellies, killdee, killers, killies, kleagle, knelled, knolled, knoller, kruller, lawlike, leakily, leglike, likable, liplike, owllike, skellum, skilled, skillet, skulled, sleekly, ukelele, ukulele.

 

+4 letters: alkalies, alkaline, alkalise, alkalize, alkylate, balkline, balmlike, belleeks, blackleg, bowllike, bullneck, calflike, clawlike, claylike, cultlike, elflocks, feltlike, folklife, folklike, folklore, folktale, glenlike, gluelike, gulflike, halolike, hellkite, inkwells, keelhale, keelhaul, keelless, keloidal, killdeer, killdees, kilomole, kleagles, knelling, knollers, krullers, lacelike, ladylike, lakelike, lamblike, lardlike, lavalike, leaflike, leakless, lifelike, likeable, likelier, lilylike, limekiln, linelike, linkable, lionlike, lockable, loftlike, lordlike, lovelock, luckless, millcake, overkill, palmlike, playlike, plumlike, rakehell, saltlike, seallike, selamlik, shellack, silklike, skeletal, skellums, skilless, skillets, slablike, slakable, soullike, taillike, talkable, tilelike, ukeleles, ukuleles, unlikely, veillike, walkable, wolflike, woollike.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: KELL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 45 4C 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-    .    .-..    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01000101 01001100 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#69 &#76 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0045 004C 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

45394646

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Cities
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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Deens, danisht, danishte, ‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish;
Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
Fins, finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, ‏اللغة الفنلندية, ‏فنلندية, ‏فنلندي, фински език, фински, Pinlandino, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, finskt, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finnskur, finnska, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, Finisi, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan, for Finnish;
Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, ‏فرنسي, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French;
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Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, ‏شخص إيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏الإيطالي, ‏إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian;
Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese;
Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish;
Sweeds, suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish;